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The city council may fix the place of payment of the bonds and interest. The bonds shall be numbered and registered Bonds to be by the treasurer before being disposed of; shall be payable to registered. the treasurer of the city of Ashland or order. They shall be signed by the Mayor, and countersigned by the clerk of the city, under its corporate seal. The interest coupons shall be numbered and signed by the city treasurer. The bonds shall To be sold by be delivered to the city treasurer, and be disposed of by him as the city council may direct, but at not less than par.

§ 2. For the purpose of raising a fund to pay said bonds. and interest as the same may mature, the council of said city may levy an annual tax sufficient therefor, upon the property liable to taxation for general purposes within said city, but not to exceed in any one year ten cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property.

§ 3. The bonds issued under this act may be of such denomination as the city council may determine.

§ 4. The council of said city are hereby authorized to purchase lands for the object stated in the first section of this act, and may procure the title to be made to the railroad company named for said purpose, and upon such conditions as may be specified in the deed, or the deed may be made to the city of Ashland, and then conveyed by the city to the railroad company by such officer, and upon such terms and conditions, as the city council may by ordinance direct.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Approved January 15, 1880.

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Council purchase land.

CHAPTER 12.

BILL to repeal an act, entitled "An act to provide for the levy of a tax upon dogs, and to protect the rights of owners thereof in certain counties," apppoved March 16, 1876.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That so much of said act as applies to the county of Mercer be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 15, 1880.

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CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT to incorporate Science Hill School, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That an institution of learning to be known as Science Hill School, a college for women, be, and hereby is, incorporated and established at Shelbyville, Kentucky.

§ 2. That W. T. Poynter and T. W. Jordan, and their successors in office, be, and hereby are, created a body-corporate, under the name of Principals of Science Hill, and in that name shall have perpetual succession, with power to adopt and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure; to make contracts for the benefit of said college; to sue and be sued; to plead and be impleaded in any of the courts in this Commonwealth; to acquire, by gift, grant, loan, or otherwise, any property for use of said college; to sell and dispose of same at pleasure.

§ 3. The principals shall have power to prescribe rules and regulations for the government of said college, to appoint teachers, and take all steps necessary for the full and successful conduct of same.

§ 4. The faculty of said college shall have power to confer May confer de any and all degrees and diplomas conferred by any other grees and diploinstitutions of learning in this State: Provided, That no degree be conferred, upon any student, except those who shall have completed the regular course of study.

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5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 15, 1880.

CHAPTER 14.

AN ACT to enable J. T. Berry and wife to redeem certain real estate purchased by the State for taxes.

WHEREAS, John T. Gray owned an estate by the curtesy in certain real estate in the city of Louisville, and his daughter, Mrs. Anita C. Berry, wife of Dr. J. T. Berry, owned the reversion, and said property has been sold and purchased by the Commonwealth of Kentucky for taxes; therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Dr. J. T. Berry and his wife, Anita C. Berry, are

hereby authorized and empowered to redeem the whole or any part of the real estate lying and situate in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and in which John T. Gray owned an estate by the curtesy, and his daughter, Mrs. Anita C. Berry, owned the reversion, and which was sold and purchased by the Commonwealth of Kentucky for taxes, by the payment to the Auditor of Public Accounts the taxes assessed and unpaid, and costs actually paid by the State for making the sale, against each of the several parcels of real estate they may redeem, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the time the taxes became due and payable until the time of payment to the Auditor: Provided, That said tax, costs, &c., shall be paid by October 10th, 1880.

§2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is directed to release the claim of the State upon said real estate upon receipt of all the taxes assessed against said property, and interest thereon as provided in the first section of this act, and the costs as aforesaid.

3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 15, 1880.

CHAPTER 15.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to reduce into one, amend, and digest the acts and amendatory acts incorporating the city of Glasgow." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That section three, article eight, of an act, entitled "An act to reduce into one, amend, and digest the acts and amendatory acts incorporating the city of Glasgow," approved February 11, 1878, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 15, 1880.

CHAPTER 16.

AN ACT to cure and perfect defects of the records existing in the Campbell

county clerk's office.

§ 1. That the present clerk of the Campbell county court is hereby authorized to sign the name of his predecessors in

office to any instrument of writing, or articles of incorporation or other matters required by law to be recorded, copied on the record books of said county, or found lodged for record in his office, to which the certificate and signature of his predecessors is required by law, but is not appended thereto, to make such certificate, complete such instrument of record, and such record-books as fully and completely as though done by such predecessors themselves; to have the same force and effect as though done by such predecessor in the regular way and at the time it should have been done, and any person, persons, or corporate companies whose titles, rights, powers, or privileges in any manner affected or defective by reason of any neglect of official duty on the part of the ex-clerks of the Campbell county court or their deputies, shall be deemed cured and perfected after the completion aforesaid from respective dates of lodgment for record, or the ordering any such or other matter to record: Provided, That no vested right in the meantime acquired shall be prejudicially affected thereby And provided further, That over his signature to any such certificate, record, or other instrument, said clerk shall write the statement that his signature is appended pursuant and by virtue of this act, referring to it by its title and date of its approval.

§ 2. That the clerk of the Campbell county court is hereby authorized to make perfect any matter in any way defective by reason of the official neglect of any of his predecessors in office, to have the same force and effect contemplated by sec. tion the first of this act, as fully as such predecessors could have done: Provided, No levy to pay for the same shall be made out of the funds of Campbell county.

§3. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 15, 1880.

CHAPTER 17.

AN ACT for the prevention of the sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors within two miles of Liberty and Locust Grove Churches, in Christian county.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

§ 1. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to sell any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors at any place within

two miles of Liberty and Locust Grove Churches, in Christian county, or either of them.

§2. That any person so selling shall be subject for each Fine. offense to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, which may be recovered before any justice of the peace in said county, or by indictment in the eircuit court.

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§3. That the county attorney, in all prosecutions before County atto justices of the peace under this act, shall receive as compensation for his services twenty-five per cent. of the fines imposed, when he attends in person at the trial. § 4. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 15, 1880.

CHAPTER 18.

AN ACT legalizing certain acts of the common council of the city of Henderson, and authorizing the collection of the taxes for the year 1879 by S. A. Young, late marshal of said city.

WHEREAS, S. A. Young was, at the August election, 1877, elected marshal of the city of Henderson for the périod of two years from the first Tuesday of September, 1877, to the first Tuesday of September, 1879; and whereas, by the charter. of the city of Henderson he was, by virtue of his office, collector of the taxes of said city; and whereas, at the June meeting, 1879, of the city council of the city of Henderson, he executed his bond as required by law for the collection of the taxes due said city for the year 1879; and whereas, the city council failed to levy the tax to pay the interest on the bonds of said eity at the time fixed by law when they should have been levied, and did not make said levy until the 20th November, 1879, his term of office having in the meantime expired; and whereas, said city council, on making said levy, directed the clerk of said city to deliver the tax-books therefor into the hands of the said S. A. Young, late marshal of said city, for collection under the bond executed by him as herein before stated; therefore, in consideration of the premises,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That the action of the city council of the city of Henderson in delivering to S. A. Young, late marshal of said city, the LOC. L., VOL. I.—2